Port of Naha
E118551
The Port of Naha is a major seaport and transportation hub in Okinawa, Japan, serving as a key gateway for passenger ferries, cargo shipping, and regional trade in the Ryukyu Islands.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Naha canonical | 6 |
| Port of Naha and Naha New Port | 1 |
| Tomari Port | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T682828 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Port of Naha Context triple: [Naha, hasPort, Port of Naha]
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A.
Hakata Port
Hakata Port is a major international seaport in Fukuoka, Japan, serving as a key gateway for passenger ferries and cargo between Kyushu, the rest of Japan, and East Asia.
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B.
Port of Amagasaki
The Port of Amagasaki is a major industrial and commercial seaport in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, serving the Kansai region with cargo handling and maritime logistics facilities.
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C.
Port of Nagoya
The Port of Nagoya is Japan’s busiest and largest trading port, serving as a major hub for automobile exports and international maritime commerce.
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D.
Port of Sakai-Semboku
The Port of Sakai-Semboku is a major industrial and commercial seaport in the Osaka metropolitan area, serving as a key logistics hub for maritime trade in western Japan.
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E.
Port of Nishinomiya
The Port of Nishinomiya is a regional Japanese seaport in Hyōgo Prefecture that supports coastal shipping, fishing, and marine recreation along the eastern shore of Osaka Bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Port of Naha Target entity description: The Port of Naha is a major seaport and transportation hub in Okinawa, Japan, serving as a key gateway for passenger ferries, cargo shipping, and regional trade in the Ryukyu Islands.
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A.
Hakata Port
Hakata Port is a major international seaport in Fukuoka, Japan, serving as a key gateway for passenger ferries and cargo between Kyushu, the rest of Japan, and East Asia.
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B.
Port of Amagasaki
The Port of Amagasaki is a major industrial and commercial seaport in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, serving the Kansai region with cargo handling and maritime logistics facilities.
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C.
Port of Nagoya
The Port of Nagoya is Japan’s busiest and largest trading port, serving as a major hub for automobile exports and international maritime commerce.
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D.
Port of Sakai-Semboku
The Port of Sakai-Semboku is a major industrial and commercial seaport in the Osaka metropolitan area, serving as a key logistics hub for maritime trade in western Japan.
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E.
Port of Nishinomiya
The Port of Nishinomiya is a regional Japanese seaport in Hyōgo Prefecture that supports coastal shipping, fishing, and marine recreation along the eastern shore of Osaka Bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
seaport
ⓘ
transportation hub ⓘ |
| connectedBy | road network of Naha ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Kagoshima Prefecture
NERFINISHED
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mainland Japan ⓘ other Ryukyu Islands ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| handles |
container cargo
ⓘ
domestic cargo ⓘ international cargo ⓘ passenger ferries ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
cargo terminal
ⓘ
container terminal ⓘ cruise ship berth ⓘ customs facilities ⓘ ferry terminal ⓘ passenger terminal ⓘ warehouse ⓘ |
| hasTraffic |
container ships
ⓘ
domestic passenger ferries ⓘ international cruise ships ⓘ roll-on/roll-off vessels ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Government of Japan ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East China Sea
ⓘ
Naha ⓘ Okinawa Prefecture ⓘ Ryukyu Islands ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody | East China Sea ⓘ |
| nearbyInfrastructure | Naha Airport ⓘ |
| operator | Okinawa Prefecture ⓘ |
| partOf |
Port of Naha
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Port of Naha and Naha New Port
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| primaryUse |
cargo shipping
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passenger transport ⓘ regional trade ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Kyushu (Ryukyu Islands)
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surface form:
Kyushu–Okinawa region
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| role |
supporting export of Okinawan products
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supporting supply of goods to remote islands of Okinawa ⓘ |
| serves |
Naha
ⓘ
Okinawa Prefecture ⓘ Ryukyu Islands ⓘ |
| servesAs |
gateway for tourism to Okinawa
ⓘ
logistics hub for Okinawa ⓘ |
| significance |
important node in regional trade in East China Sea
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key hub for Ryukyu inter-island transport ⓘ major gateway to Okinawa ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Port of Naha Description of subject: The Port of Naha is a major seaport and transportation hub in Okinawa, Japan, serving as a key gateway for passenger ferries, cargo shipping, and regional trade in the Ryukyu Islands.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Port of Naha and Naha New Port
subject surface form:
Naha
this entity surface form:
Tomari Port